His mother, Peng Seo-hyeon, who was standing beside Dam Kang-hyeon, spoke.
“We did practically corner her.
But suddenly, an unexpected interloper appeared…”
“An interloper?”
“Yes.
We drove her into a dead-end cave, but of all things, there was a person inside that cave.”
“Who was it that you, someone within the top ten of the Heavenly Troops, couldn’t handle?”
“It was a name I’d never heard before, Sa Cheon.
But he used an Advanced Martial Arts technique like the indestructible body.”
“How annoying.”
Dam Kang-hyeon bit his lip.
“What do you plan to do now?
If Blood Thunder is protecting her, we can’t just recklessly charge in.”
It was Peng Seo-hyeon’s younger brother, Peng Gal, who had become the grand Elder of the Cheonjin Sect.
“What kind of nerve does that bastard have to defy me?”
“I heard that in the past, Blood Thunder received a favor from Dam Ye-rin’s biological mother.
That must be why.”
“Is there no way?”
After pondering his question for a long while, Peng Gal spoke again.
“How about contacting the Vice Sect Leader and the elders of the Black Dragon Sect?
If they help us, even Blood Thunder won’t be able to do anything alone.”
At Peng Gal’s suggestion, Dam Kang-hyeon stroked his chin and thought for a long time.
“Do that for now.
And find out just what kind of guy this Sa Cheon is.”
“Yes, understood.”
‘Sa Cheon.
Sa Cheon.
It’s a name I feel like I’ve heard somewhere a lot.’
Peng Seo-hyeon tilted her head at the name Sa Cheon, then her eyes flashed as if she remembered something.
“Sa Cheon.
If it’s Sa Cheon, that…”
Dam Kang-hyeon turned his head to his mother.
“Do you know who he is?!”
* * *
Four months later.
Hebei.
North of the Yellow River, yellow waves spread wide for thousands of miles.
Beyond that boundary, there was a wilderness where vast plains unfolded, and a massive city with a population exceeding twenty million.
Was it just the wilderness and the population?
Various sects were also gathered in Hebei.
First, to the south was the Cheonjin Sect, one of the Seven Great Sects, and to the north, dozens of small and medium sects like the Daebuk Sect and Hancheong Sect were densely packed together.
Besides that, if one went further north, there was a place where diverse ethnicities lived together.
Namely, Cheonjin is known as a port city.
As a port city, its commerce developed, so there were many wealthy noble families and merchants, and with several new sects springing up to cater to them, it was recently one of the cities showing the fastest development in the Murim.
Among them, the most prominent was the Black Dragon Sect.
The number of disciples wasn’t that large.
However, its scale was rapidly expanding to the point where the highest number of martial arts students in Hebei had recently applied to join.
This was due to the reputation of Blood Thunder, who belonged to the Hundred Great Masters, and the opportunity to learn the Black Dragon Sect’s unique Martial Arts even without being an official disciple.
With the Sect suddenly growing, buildings undergoing additional expansion could be seen here and there, and outside the buildings, the disciples of the Black Dragon Sect were moving busily.